This report is for the entire current funding year (May thru April). We understand that each agency might use different financial and program reporting periods. We ask that you do your best to provide data that reflects this time frame. Please fill this out electronically, entering projected information from your original application and any revisions.
Email the completed form to acuw@acuw.com by May 15, 2013.
Agency: Literacy West NY, Inc.
Program: Successful Middle School Transitions/Parents as Career Coaches
Amount of ACUW Allocation: $ 20,000
Name and title of person submitting report: Joan Wissert
1) Conditions:
 Did your agency experience any staffing changes relevant to this program during
the period covered by this report? If yes, please explain. No staffing changes.
 Have there been any significant changes in your budget or financial status that
affected this program? If yes, please explain. No significant changes have affected this program.
 How are volunteers used in this program? No volunteers are used in this program.
 Have there been any changes to the type or level of service/program funded by
the United Way? If yes, please explain. No changes.

2) Program Output/Outcomes Chart - Proposed/Actual
Definition of terms:
 Program Activities: the major components of the funded program
 Outputs for each activity: what is produced through those activities – should be quantitative and measurable (e.g. number of booklets produced, workshops held, people trained).
 Program outcomes for each activity: the changes or benefits to the participants resulting from the program -- usually measurable (e.g. increased skills/ knowledge/ confidence, leading in longer-term to promotion, new job)
 Community outcomes for each activity: long term changes or benefits to the Allegany
County community. How our community will be changed as a result of this program (e.g. program participants will make wiser financial decisions and become economically selfsufficient, thus reducing the level of poverty in Allegany County).
(This table will expand as you fill in the information. Place each activity in a different row, adding rows if necessary.)
2012 Program Activities 2012 Program
Outputs
Proposed/Actual
2012 Program
Outcomes
Proposed/Actual
Provide Parents as Career Coaches workshops at Allegany County schools.
Proposed: 32-40 parent-student teams will participate in 2
Saturday workshops held at 4 different locations (8-10 teams per workshop location).
Proposed: 80 % of the parent-student teams who participate in the
PACC workshops will complete student career maps.
2012 Proposed
Community
Outcomes
Proposed/Actual
Proposed – Middle School students’ parents will be engaged in their children’s education and career planning.
Actual: 6 parentstudent teams participated in 11 evening workshops held at two different locations. We also served three “drop- ins” at Andover (students, but no parents). 141 students from Andover,
Scio and ICS were invited to participate.
Actual: 83% (5 of 6) teams completed the program and completed student career maps.
Proposed: 55-60 high school students will complete career and college readiness workshops (series of 6 workshops) in April
2013.
Actual: Scio cancelled due to scheduling conflicts and we have been unable to reschedule at this time.
Scio was given all the materials that were prepared so that they can deliver the workshops if
Actual – Parents reported and demonstrated increased engagement in their children’s education and career planning.
Parents and students gained knowledge in relation to career and educational resources.

2012 Program Activities 2012 Program
Outputs
Proposed/Actual
2012 Program
Outcomes
Proposed/Actual we are unable to schedule new dates.
Proposed: Participation in Parent-Teacher
Conference days at both
Scio and Andover.
Actual: Flyers were distributed and I spoke with 2 parents at Scio and 3 at Andover.
Proposed: Provide career workshops for 5 th and 6 th graders at
Andover.
Actual: Hands-on workshops were provided for both 5 th and 6 th grade students, replicating a workplace environment with supervisors and workers, and tasks to be completed with worker evaluation and communication styles discussion.
2012 Proposed
Community
Outcomes
Proposed/Actual
 Have you encountered any barriers to the success of this program or observed any unintended outcomes so far this year? The main barrier was a lack of response from many of the county’s schools, even after multiple contacts. We thought that regionalized programs would be the most efficient and effective way to offer broader access to the program, but in the end, schools wanted their own programs, at their location. We obliged each school’s wishes, but still only had participation from Scio and Andover.
 An unintended outcome was the request from Scio to offer workshops for high school students.
Those were planned, and the materials developed, but scheduling changes at the school kept those workshops from being offered.
 Scio decided that they wanted to target 7 th and 8 th graders, and the relevancy of the material for that group was remarkable. They are now equipped with knowledge and skills that will serve them well as they transition into high school.
2) Measurement tools:
Participants were asked to complete pre and post surveys to determine whether there was increased knowledge and awareness of the career planning process as a result of participating in Parents as
Career Coaches.

 Are these tools proving to be an effective means for gathering the data necessary to evaluate your program? (If not, please discuss your alternate methods of data collection.) Include sample of your measurement tools, if applicable.
I feel that this method does provide genuine information in regard to each participant’s sense of what they have learned from the program. All participants responded favorably and indicated that they had increased their knowledge of career planning, educational opportunities and planning, Career
Clusters and Career Pathways and personal assessments. Final copies included.
4) United Way grant expenditures:
Expense Type
ACUW
Budget
Amount
YTD
Expenditures
Remaining
Balance
Salaries
Benefits and Related Expenses
Audit
Contractual Services
Business/Office Supplies
Legal Services
Telephone
Postage
Occupancy Expenses (Rent, Mortgage, etc.)
$11,700.00
$2,340.00
$500.00
$200.00
$12,110.21
$2,446.11
$515.34
$193.05
-$410.21
-$106.11
$0.00
$0.00
-$15.34
$0.00
$0.00
$6.95
$0.00
Equipment, Repairs and Maintenance
Printing
Travel and Automobile
Conferences and Workshops
Training
Publicity/Marketing
Insurance
Computer/Internet/Technology
Miscellaneous
Other Expenses: incentive
Other Expenses: refreshments
$860.00
$2,000.00
$1,400.00
$1,045.00
$1,478.38
$1,238.73
$0.00
$0.00
-$185.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$521.62
$161.27
Other Expenses: instructional materials
Other Expenses:
$1,000.00
$973.18
$26.82
$0.00
Total Expenses $20,000.00
$20,000.00
$0.00
5) Please attach a success story regarding this program along with a jpg photo if possible that we could post on our web page and use in other publications.